Binder for hollow tile building-blocks.



H. H. SMITH.

BINDER FOR HOLLOW TILE BUILDING BLOCKS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 5, 1913. 1,1 1 3,585.

Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

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HERBERT I-I. SMITI-I, OF BAYSHORE, NEW YORK.

BINDERFOR HonLow TILE BUILDING-BLOCKS.

Specification of Letters I atent.

Application filed August 5, 1913. Serial No. 783,093:

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HERBERT II. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Baysho-re, in the county of Suffolk and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Binders for Hollow Tile 'BuildingBlocks, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide a binder for what are known as hollow tile building blocks used in the construction of the walls of buildings of various kinds or classes, and a further object of the invention is to provide a device of the class specified which will operate to save both labor and mortar. It is a well known fact thata very large per cent. of the mortar employed-"in,

building walls of hollow tile blocks islost by falling down into and through the holes in the blocks, and in order to prevent this it is customary for masons or operators to hold one hand so as to prevent the mortar from falling down into and through said holes, while applying the mortar with a trowel held in the other hand; and the chief object of my invention is to provide a binder for use in the construction of walls composed of blocks of the class specified, which will operate to prevent both of the foregoing difficulties.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the corner portion of a wall of a building in the process of construction and showing a method of using my improved binder ;-Fig. 2 a cross section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;Fig. 3 a plan view showing a part of a binder detached;-Fig. 4 a view similar to Fig. 3 but showing a modified form of binder, and Fig. 5 a transverse section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4, and showing a method of using the binder shown in said figure.

In Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing, I have shown the corner portion of the wall of a building composed of hollow tile building blocks, said wall being in the process of construction and consisting of two parts a and a at right angles to each other, and the parts a and a of the wall are composed of building tiles or blocks on having partitions a and a which cross each other at right angles toform holes a which pass vertically through said tiles or blocks. In the practice of my invention, I provide a binder b'composed of thin sheet metal and provided adjacent to one edge, in the construction shown in Fig. 3, with longitudinal slots or openings 6 In practice, these binders may be of any desired length and are placed on each layer of the blocks or tiles with the edge 72 thereof flush with the inner and outer faces of the wall, or if preferred, slightly inwardly of said faces, and the mortar c is placed on said binders and the wall is built up in the usual manner by placing alayer of tiles or blocks on the mortarcplaced on the binders b. In building-Walls oft-his class, it is customary to place the mortar only on the outer side or face walls of the building tiles or blocks, and in this operation a large part of the mortar falls down through, or passes down through the holes a formed by the partitions a and a and the only way this can be prevented is to hold one hand inwardly of the inner or outer faces of said walls to catch the mortar which would otherwise fall down through the holes aflwhile said mortar is being applied by a trowel held in the other hand. With my improvement, however, the mortar 0 is spread on the binders b, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and

said binders are also wide enough to-prevent the mortar from falling down through the holes a", and to assist in this operation, the inner edges of the binders are preferably curved upwardly, as shown at b, but this curve of the inner edges of the binders is not absolutely. necessary and said binders may, if desired, be made as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

In the use of my improvement, as hereinbefore described, the mortar passes through the slots or openings 6 and rests in contact with and on the side, or inner and outer surfaces of the tiles or blocks, as shown in Fig.

2, and thesuccessive layers of tiles or bloclis are bound together by the mortar in the same manner as though the binders b were not employed.

In Figs. 4 and 5,1 have shown a modification in which, in addition to dispensing with the raised inner edges of thebinders, I provide the body portions of said binders with transverse slots or openings 5, and in prac- Patented Oct 13 "of any dimensions and of any number of partitions and of any shape or form, either square, oblong, or of other shape, and the binders, while preferably made of thin sheet metal may -;be made of fibrous or other material if desired.

Having fully described my invention,

what Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. Theherein vdescribed binder or binders for useyin vthe construction of walls composed of hollow building tiles or blocks conssisting ofathin strip or stripsofshe'et ma-j terial of lesstransverse width than the walls posed of hollow building tiles or blocks and consisting of a thin strip or strips of sheet I metal of less transverse width than the walls and provided adjacent to one side edge with longitudinal slots or openings which are adapted to register with a side wall of said tiles or blocks, the other side edge of said strip or strips being curved upwardly, and the body portion of said strip or strips being also provided at predetermined intervals with transverse slots or openings.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence ofthe subscribing witnesses this 1st day of August 1913.

HERBERT H. SMITH. Witnesses:

C. MULREANY, S. ANDREWS.

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